Algeria’s 1990s civil war reprised the FLN’s 1954 insurgency pattern

Evidence

One of the first, eminent victims of terrorism that June was the President himself, Mohamed Boudiaf. Almost sole survivor of the greatly respected “neuf historiques”, he had been brought back at seventy-three to head a government of reconciliation. As an echo of the 1950s, two weeks alone of January 1994 saw 116 Algerian policemen assassinated, in a deliberate attempt to sow the kind of fear that had gripped the populace during the struggle against the French. Magistrates, evoluées women who refused to wear the veil (and to whom the Revolution had brought such high hopes of emancipation), novelists, journalists and intellectuals all appeared high on the Fundamentalist hit-list. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Also targeted, in a determined effort by the F.I.S. to ruin the country’s economy by scaring off badly needed external investment, were foreign journalists and technicians. Distinguished political leaders, like Ait Ahmed, were driven — once more — into exile, for fear of their lives. The Government met terror with counter-terror. There leaked out accounts of torture, executions without trial, and “disappearances” that recalled the worst moments of the French Occupation. As in the ’60s, during the reign of the O.A.S., terrorist bombings now struck at Metropolitan France again. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (#expands, via linked claim)

In 1992 elections were cancelled, and the FIS disenfranchised. Elements of it took to the hills and the streets in much the same way as the FLN had in 1954. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 40 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics.; Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694; Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695 (+3 more)

Related

• Algeria’s 1990s civil war echoed the war of liberation in scale and tactics. (similarity 0.97)
• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France (similarity 0.93)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France (similarity 0.90)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.88)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.86)
• 1990s atrocities reprised the throat-slitting techniques of the original war (similarity 0.85)
• War transformed the Algerian’s passive rejection of colonial lies into an active counter-truth (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s post-independence regime was captured by its wartime armed wing. (similarity 0.84)
• Cancelling FIS elections drove it to insurgency replicating the FLN’s 1954 pattern. (similarity 0.84)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.83)
• Ten Algerian civilians died for every combatant killed (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria descended into a secret civil war parallel to the main front (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algeria’s 1990s violence deliberately recycled tactics from the war against France #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1695
• Cancelling FIS elections drove it to insurgency replicating the FLN’s 1954 pattern. #expands (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 40
• Algeria’s post-independence civil war killed over twice as many as the war against France #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1694